diff --git a/app/ui/components/editors/auth/o-auth-2-auth.js b/app/ui/components/editors/auth/o-auth-2-auth.js
index 106dbbbaee..961093d017 100644
--- a/app/ui/components/editors/auth/o-auth-2-auth.js
+++ b/app/ui/components/editors/auth/o-auth-2-auth.js
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import type {OAuth2Token} from '../../../../models/o-auth-2-token';
 
 import React from 'react';
 import classnames from 'classnames';
-import moment from 'moment';
 import autobind from 'autobind-decorator';
 import OneLineEditor from '../../codemirror/one-line-editor';
 import * as misc from '../../../../common/misc';
@@ -17,6 +16,7 @@ import Link from '../../base/link';
 import {trackEvent} from '../../../../analytics/index';
 import HelpTooltip from '../../help-tooltip';
 import PromptButton from '../../base/prompt-button';
+import TimeFromNow from '../../time-from-now';
 
 const getAuthorizationUrls = () => authorizationUrls;
 const getAccessTokenUrls = () => accessTokenUrls;
@@ -381,9 +381,9 @@ class OAuth2Auth extends React.PureComponent {
       return '(never expires)';
     }
 
-    const expiresAt = new Date(token.expiresAt);
-    const str = moment(expiresAt).fromNow();
-    return <span title={expiresAt.toString()}>(expires {str})</span>;
+    return (
+      <span>&#x28;expires <TimeFromNow timestamp={token.expiresAt}/>&#x29;</span>
+    );
   }
 
   render () {
diff --git a/app/ui/components/editors/body/graph-ql-editor.js b/app/ui/components/editors/body/graph-ql-editor.js
index 02fd895698..5a121b3f5b 100644
--- a/app/ui/components/editors/body/graph-ql-editor.js
+++ b/app/ui/components/editors/body/graph-ql-editor.js
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 // @flow
 import type {Request} from '../../../../models/request';
 import {newBodyRaw} from '../../../../models/request';
-
 import React from 'react';
 import autobind from 'autobind-decorator';
 import {parse, print} from 'graphql';
@@ -18,6 +17,7 @@ import type {Workspace} from '../../../../models/workspace';
 import type {Settings} from '../../../../models/settings';
 import type {RenderedRequest} from '../../../../common/render';
 import {getRenderedRequest} from '../../../../common/render';
+import TimeFromNow from '../../time-from-now';
 
 type GraphQLBody = {
   query: string,
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ class GraphQLEditor extends React.PureComponent {
     body: GraphQLBody,
     schema: Object | null,
     schemaFetchError: string,
+    schemaLastFetchTime: number,
+    schemaIsFetching: boolean,
     hideSchemaFetchErrors: boolean,
     variablesSyntaxError: string,
     forceRefreshKey: number
@@ -63,6 +65,8 @@ class GraphQLEditor extends React.PureComponent {
       body: this._stringToGraphQL(props.content),
       schema: null,
       schemaFetchError: '',
+      schemaLastFetchTime: 0,
+      schemaIsFetching: false,
       hideSchemaFetchErrors: false,
       variablesSyntaxError: '',
       forceRefreshKey: 0
@@ -74,9 +78,16 @@ class GraphQLEditor extends React.PureComponent {
   }
 
   async _fetchAndSetSchema (rawRequest: Request) {
+    this.setState({schemaIsFetching: true});
+
     const {workspace, settings, environmentId} = this.props;
     const request: RenderedRequest = await getRenderedRequest(rawRequest, environmentId);
-    const newState = {schema: this.state.schema, schemaFetchError: ''};
+    const newState = {
+      schema: this.state.schema,
+      schemaFetchError: '',
+      schemaLastFetchTime: this.state.schemaLastFetchTime,
+      schemaIsFetching: false
+    };
 
     try {
       // TODO: Use Insomnia's network stack to handle things like authentication
@@ -107,6 +118,7 @@ class GraphQLEditor extends React.PureComponent {
         const {data} = JSON.parse(bodyBuffer.toString());
         const schema = buildClientSchema(data);
         newState.schema = schema;
+        newState.schemaLastFetchTime = Date.now();
       } else {
         newState.schemaFetchError = 'No response body received when fetching schema';
       }
@@ -124,7 +136,7 @@ class GraphQLEditor extends React.PureComponent {
     const {body, forceRefreshKey} = this.state;
     const {variables, query} = body;
     const prettyQuery = query && print(parse(query));
-    const prettyVariables = variables && prettifyJson(JSON.stringify(variables));
+    const prettyVariables = variables && JSON.parse(prettifyJson(JSON.stringify(variables)));
     this._handleBodyChange(prettyQuery, prettyVariables);
     setTimeout(() => {
       this.setState({forceRefreshKey: forceRefreshKey + 1});
@@ -191,6 +203,24 @@ class GraphQLEditor extends React.PureComponent {
     this._isMounted = false;
   }
 
+  renderSchemaFetchMessage () {
+    let message;
+    const {schemaLastFetchTime, schemaIsFetching} = this.state;
+    if (schemaIsFetching) {
+      message = 'Fetching schema...';
+    } else if (schemaLastFetchTime > 0) {
+      message = <span>schema last fetched <TimeFromNow timestamp={schemaLastFetchTime}/></span>;
+    } else {
+      message = 'schema not yet fetched';
+    }
+
+    return (
+      <div className="txt-sm super-faint italic pad-sm">
+        {message}
+      </div>
+    );
+  }
+
   render () {
     const {
       content,
@@ -250,6 +280,9 @@ class GraphQLEditor extends React.PureComponent {
             </div>
           )}
         </div>
+        <div className="graphql-editor__schema-notice">
+          {this.renderSchemaFetchMessage()}
+        </div>
         <h2 className="no-margin pad-left-sm pad-top-sm pad-bottom-sm">
           Query Variables <HelpTooltip>Variables to use in GraphQL query <br/>(JSON
           format)</HelpTooltip>
diff --git a/app/ui/components/time-from-now.js b/app/ui/components/time-from-now.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d736984d21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/ui/components/time-from-now.js
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+// @flow
+import React from 'react';
+import autobind from 'autobind-decorator';
+import moment from 'moment';
+
+@autobind
+class TimeFromNow extends React.PureComponent {
+  props: {
+    timestamp: number
+  };
+
+  state: {
+    text: string
+  };
+
+  _interval: any;
+
+  constructor (props: any) {
+    super(props);
+    this._interval = null;
+    this.state = {
+      text: ''
+    };
+  }
+
+  _update () {
+    const {timestamp} = this.props;
+    this.setState({text: moment(timestamp).fromNow()});
+  }
+
+  componentDidMount () {
+    this._interval = setInterval(this._update, 5000);
+    this._update();
+  }
+
+  componentWillUnmount () {
+    clearInterval(this._interval);
+  }
+
+  render () {
+    return <span title={moment(this.props.timestamp).toString()}>
+      {this.state.text}
+      </span>;
+  }
+}
+
+export default TimeFromNow;
diff --git a/app/ui/css/components/graph-ql-editor.less b/app/ui/css/components/graph-ql-editor.less
index 1e35aefa34..d3f61acf55 100644
--- a/app/ui/css/components/graph-ql-editor.less
+++ b/app/ui/css/components/graph-ql-editor.less
@@ -3,7 +3,12 @@
 .graphql-editor {
   display: grid;
   height: 100%;
-  grid-template-rows: minmax(0, auto) min-content min-content minmax(0, min-content) min-content;
+  grid-template-rows: minmax(0, auto)
+  min-content
+  min-content
+  min-content
+  minmax(0, min-content)
+  min-content;
 
   & > h2 {
     color: var(--hl);